Brian Bailey
Consultant
Brian Bailey is an independent consultant working in the fields of Electronic System Level (ESL) methodologies and functional verification. Prior to this he was the chief technologist for verification at Mentor Graphics. He is the editor for the EETimes EDA Designline and a contributing editor to EDN. He has published seven books, given talks around the world, chairs international standards committees (is he crazy), and sits on the technical advisory board for several EDA companies. He graduated from Brunel University in England with a first class honours degree in electrical and electronic engineering (yes – he is another Brit, so of course he is crazy).
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's contributions
- 05.16.2013
- The truth about Cloud security
- Yes - I have started to see tools emerge that have a nice split between the client and server sides and some of them ensure that the complete data only resides on the client side. The user is then able to put in place any form of data security (be that backups or storage in the cloud) independently of their execution environment.
- 04.10.2013
- Which is better - graphics or text?
- I am not sure Xilinx intends to replace text with graphics entirely - only for IP assembly. The blocks themselves will still be defined using HDLs, although C, C++ and SystemC will be added into the mix.
- 04.10.2013
- Which is better - graphics or text?
- I also remember a long time back, Mentor had a product that would convert from text to graphics and graphics to text. I am not sure what became of that product.
- 04.02.2013
- Chip design – it’s not rocket science
- Are people still using liquid rockets? I thought they were generally considered more expensive to create and maintain and thus had been largely replaced by solid rockets. Do the same flame fronts exist in those?
- 04.02.2013
- Chip design – it’s not rocket science
- I am aware of proposals for this in the Mars Lander program but was not aware that such things had been shown to be possible beyond small prototypes.
- 04.02.2013
- Chip design – it’s not rocket science
- I agree. It put the US ahead in many fields and it is a shame that we do not have such a rallying cry today.
- 04.02.2013
- Chip design – it’s not rocket science
- I am guessing that nobody has ever tried to automate rocket science. Once you know all of the equations, I would think modeling and simulation would be fairly easy.
- 04.02.2013
- Chip design – it’s not rocket science
- You are right of course - and I did mean to disparage in the literal sense. However, I believe rocket science got the name because as kids we all (ok exaggeration) wanted to go to the moon, but none of us said - I want to design a better FinFET.
- 04.02.2013
- Chip design – it’s not rocket science
- Yes, it is the geometries involved and the production processes that make it so difficult. Silicon warping and CMP are difficult, plus the alignment issues when stacking chips is still a bit iffy.
- 04.02.2013
- Chip design – it’s not rocket science
- Yes , it was predicted that had we not dealt with some of the power issues in a chip, that by now we would have been dealing with the same heat densities that existed in a rocket.
